Recommended Reading List

Given the plethora of texts about O9A esotericism and O9A praxises published – in line with the move from Phase II to Phase III of O9A Aeonic Strategy {1} – between 2015 and 2019, it is germane to issue a new Recommended Reading List especially as the previous one dated from the 1990s and was not subsequently updated.

The majority of the recommended texts are currently – January 2019 ev, 130 yfayen – available on the O9A blog at omega9alpha dot wordpress dot com, locatable using the ‘search’ function of that blog and inputting the title(s) listed below.

Caveat Lector

The curious, or the neophyte, reader of O9A texts should be aware of three things.

1. That O9A texts were written over a period of some forty years with the O9A having, even by 2009,

“produced more material on both the practical and theoretical aspects of magic, as well as more ideological texts on Satanism and the Left-Hand Path in general, than larger groups such as the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set has produced in combination [which] makes the ONA an important player in the theoretical discussion of what the Left-Hand Path and Satanism is and should be according to the practitioners.” {2}

The time-scale of some forty years and the quantity of O9A texts means that it easy for the curious, or the neophyte, reader to become confused especially as they may find some texts which seem on a first or even on a second reading to contradict some other text or texts.

2. Some of this confusion was intentional – part of the O9A’s Labyrinthos Mythologicus – since the curious, and especially neophytes, were expected to work some things out for themselves such as discovering or having an Occult intuition regarding the distinction between the exoteric (some outer form or appearance or useful tool) and the esoteric (the essence hidden by some form, by appearance, by what a useful tool can create or be used for).

3. That most individuals critical of the O9A, be they self-described ‘satanists’ or otherwise, and most academics who have written about the O9A, have (i) not bothered to study the entire O9A written corpus from the 1970s to the present, and (ii) have failed to understand or to intuit the difference between O9A esotericism and exoteric appearance (useful exoteric tools and forms), or (iii) became lost in and confused by the O9A’s Labyrinthos Mythologicus.

The result being a lack of knowledge about, and a lack of insight into, the O9A, its praxises, and its esotericism. Which ignorance – which lack of knowledge and lack of insight – did not and does not prevent such individuals and such academics {3} from pontificating about the O9A.

Rachael Stirling
TWS Nexion
January 2019 ev

{1} See Geneseos Caput Tertium. Documents of the Inner O9A, 122 yfayen.{2} Jacob C. Senholt, The Sinister Tradition. Paper presented at the international conference, Satanism in the Modern World, Trondheim, 19-20th of November, 2009. p.26.{3} In regard to one recent academic misunderstanding, see the 2018 text Another Academic Misinterpretation Of The O9A.

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Recommended Reading List

Introductory Texts

For those interested in or curious about the Order of Nine Angles.

° O9A 101
° The Exoteric And Esoteric Reality Of The O9A
° In The Name Of The Order Of Nine Angles
° Classifying O9A Texts
° Labyrinthos Mythologicus
° A Modern Practical Guide To The O9A Seven Fold Way
° The O9A Septenary Sigil
° Overview Of The Contemporary Secret Society Known As The Order of Nine Angles
° Some Anti-O9A Propaganda Exposed

O9A Esotericism: Practice

For those interested in what is involved in following the O9A Seven Fold Way; and those interested in beginning their own practical hermetic quest along the traditional Seven Fold Way.

° Complete Guide To The Order of Nine Angles. Seventh Edition (2015), 1460 pages, pdf 55 Mb. A comprehensive guide to the traditional Seven Fold Way up to and including the Grade Rituals of Internal Adept and The Abyss. It contains facsimile versions of 1980s and 1990s O9A texts such as Naos, The Black Book of Satan, and the complete Deofel Quartet, as well as classic texts such as The Grimoire of Baphomet, The Culling Texts, Enantiodromia:The Sinister Abyssal Nexion, and the Esoteric Chant Archive.

° O9A Occult Fiction And The Sinister-Numinous Aesthetic.

° Introducing The Star Game. An overview of the O9A Star Game as an “esoteric language”.

° O9A: The Dark Art Of Shrenching. An introduction to that Dark Art by reference to one of the novels of the Deofel Quartet.

° Culling And The Code of Kindred Honour.

O9A Esotericism: Theory

For those interested in learning more about O9A esotericism and about its hermetic, and pagan, roots.

° The Esoteric Hermeticism Of The Order Of Nine Angles. A 159 page (pdf) compilation issued in 2015 containing texts such as Aρρενόθηλυς: Alchemical And Hermetic Antecedents Of The Seven Fold Way, and The Pagan Order Of Nine Angles .

° O9A Texts 2018. A listing of some of the texts issued in 2018, and between 2016 and 2017. The texts listed include (i) The Eludent O9A; (ii) The Latin Picatrix, The Arabic Ghayat al-ḥakim, And The O9A Septenary System; (iii) Sigils In Medieval And Renaissance Occult Texts; (iv) O9A Esoteric Notes LXXVI: Archaic Spelling In O9A Esoteric Tradition; (v) Esoteric Notes LV: Chants and Mimesis In The Sinister Tradition of The Order Of Nine Angles; (vi) Non-English Names And Terms In O9A Tradition; and (vii) A Modern Mysterium.